Getting the most out of your Merino business and new markets for wool

August 2011

In this edition we compare look at how well wool measures up with other enterprises when it comes to profitability, the results may surprise you.

And we hear from AWI CEO Stuart McCullough about how he’s running the business and working to sell more wool into emerging markets and an interesting look into how the industry has changed from 20 years ago, when Stuart himself was a wool buyer in the heat of those very tumultuous days after the Reserve Price Scheme crashed.

Sandy McEachern (Holmes Sackett) and Stuart McCullough (AWI).

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Campaign for Wool, Chinese retailers & RM Williams

May 2011

The Governor General Quentin Bryce talks about her personal connection with wool.

Chinese retailers and designers come to Australia looking for cashmere but find something better and RM Williams designer Jonathon Ward speaks about business and his part in wool4skool.  

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The latest on farm R&D

April 2011

AWI and MLA recently held the R&D insights forum, which updated consultants within the wool industry on where current R&D was at and what it means at an on-farm level.

Mike Stephens (Mike Stephens and Associates), Mike Wagg (Jarrapool Project Management and Consulting) , Ashley White (NSW I&I, Robbie Sefton (Sefton and Associates) Russell Patterson (Miracle Dog).

You can view the presentations from the R&D insights forum here: www.wool.com/rndinsights

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New worm tools

April 2011

It is estimated worms costs the Australian Merino industry, approximately $279 million dollars a year, with 82 per cent of this loss being a result of lost productivity.

Get a better idea of the true costs of worms and new tools currently being released to help Australian wool growers tackle this issue.

Dr Jane Littlejohn (AWI) and Associate Professor Lewis Khan (UNE).

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Carbon, worms and Snowgum Merino

April 2011

Why woolgrowers should have nothing to fear in the carbon debate, a new approach to worms that should pay dividends and why Merino is selling so well at retail and how you can get a 20% discount at Snowgum.

Roger Hegarty Sheep CRC, John Larson, Mackinon Project, Ross Elliot, Snowgum.

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